| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alfred Middleton | |||||
| Nickname | Alf | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Second-row | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| ≤1989–≥1989 | Salford | |||||
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1931–1931 | England | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929–1929 | Great Britain | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk | ||||||
Alfred "Alf" Middleton is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1920s and '30s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Salford, playing at Second-row, i.e. number 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums.
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Alf Middleton won a cap for England while at Salford in 1931 against Wales, and won a cap for Great Britain while at Salford in 1929 against Australia.[1]
Alf Middleton was one of the players who successfully toured in France with Salford in 1934, during which the Salford team earned the name "Les Diables Rouges", the seventeen players were; Joseph "Joe" Bradbury, Robert "Bob" Brown, Aubrey Casewell, Patrick "Paddy" Dalton, Hubert "Bert" Day, Clifford "Cliff" Evans, John "Jack" Feetham, George Harris, Barney Hudson, Emlyn Jenkins, Alf Middleton, Samuel "Sammy" Miller, Harold Osbaldestin, Leslie "Les" Pearson, Gus Risman, William "Billy" Watkins, and William "Billy" Williams